ITEM # 7888 EIGHTEEN SONGS OF A NOMAD FLUTE THE STORY OF LADY WEN-CHI PUB BY MMA 1974 80PGS 11 X 10 HARD BACK IN SLIP CASE PRESENTS A 14 TH CENTURY HANDSCROLL FROM CHINA TELLING THE STORY OF WEN-CHI ,HER ABDUCTION AND RECOVERY . INCLUDES COMMENTARY AND TRANSLATION OF THE POEMS AND PHOTOS OF EACH PANAL ON THE SCROLL . LAYED IN ARE 5 PIECES RELATING TO CHINESE ART ,TWO BEING GREETING CARDS WITH CHINESE ART ON FRONT ,OTHERS FROM CHINESE ART DISPLAYS AT MUSEUMS BOOK IS FINE, AS NEW SLIP NEAR NEW WITH ONLY VERY MINOR WEAR View More...
Very beautiful over-sized booklet measuring 8-1/2"x11" lavishly illustrated with black and white and much color art. Though categorized as one, this is NOT an art catalog published to accompany an exhibition, but rather a booklet devoted solely to the Chinese paintings in the Douglas Dillon Galleries of the museum. The text is quite lengthy and all is printed on quality coated paper. 80 pages. View More...
Book is clean and tightly bound, but does show wear to crown and tail of spine including a small piece missing at crown. Hinges are tight, but back one shows a repair made with Japan paper similar in color to endpapers. Hinge is strong and tight, but you can see cracking to pages through repair paper (see photo). Silver ornamentation is bright on both face and spine and there are no names or writing. Book provides a detailed history of New York City's China Town during the last decade of the 19th century. Text is plentiful and detailed and is augmented by both both small black and white photo... View More...
Crisp, BRAND NEW offering still in oiriginal publisher's shrinkwrap. Contents come in a box and consist of a paperback instruction manual, a CD, and 64 double faced dialogue cards -- one side in English, the other in Chinese. Perfect for beinning students or travelers in need of a crash course in survival Chinese. View More...
Beautiful book, gently kept. Clean and bright inside and out with just a small dark spot to upper back corner near spine (see photo). This is an exhibition catalog which accompanied a traveling display which began in 1989 and ended in 1994. Sites included The Phoenix Art Museum; The Mary & Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University; The Harvard University Art Museums; the Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas; The Columbus, Ohio Museum of Art; The Elvehjem Art Museum of the University of Wisconson, Madison; and the Chrysler Museum. The early catalog was titled Heritage of the Brush ... View More...
Crisp and clean as new with one odd defect -- a six digit number written on the title page (see photo) . The orignal publisher material is still laid in and other than the defect stated the book is pristine inside and out. Dustjacket will arrive in brand new mylar cover. Close readings of more than 20 Buddhist texts shined a light on a "mother-son filial piety, in contrast to the traditional father-son model." Chapters as follows: Buddhist Propaganda; Confucian Complexes; Nascient Buddhist Filal Piety; Mothers and Sons in the Beginning; Mothers and Sons in the Ghost Festival; The Buddhist Elit... View More...
ITEM # 7864 STEPPING FORTH INTO THE WORLD BY EDWARD J.M. RHOADS PUB BY HONG KONG UNIVERSITY PRESS 2011 312 PGS 6 X 9 CARD STOCK COVER THE STORY OF THE CHINESE EDUCATIONAL MISSION TO THE UNITED STATES 1872-81 . 120 CHINESE BOYS SENT TO NEW ENGLAND TO LIVE AND STUDY FOR 10 YEARS . BOOK IN FINE CONDITION [ WORLD HISTORY ] View More...
Beautiful book, numbered 394 of only a 700 copy print run. Elegantly presented and shows as new from book itself to the sllipcase and the sleeve which covers them both, Text is in both English and Japanese and was SIGNED by author thus : "With my respect, T. Egawa." Book is bound in quarter brown morocco at spine with textured butterscotch colored boards. Pristine inside and out. The author's private collection is sumptuously photographed in color and focuses on ancicent Chinese ornaments which were traded by the Sythians with the ancient Greeks as early as 3000 years ago. Book also contains... View More...
17 BEAUTIFUL COLOR PRINTS ON HEAVY CARD STOCK , CLOSE UP VIEWS OFCHINESE CERAMICS DATEING AS FAR BACK AS 580 A.D,. BACK OF EACH PRINT SHOWS AGE DISCRIPTION ECT. View More...
Very clean and tightly bound book, covered in sturdy blue buckram and designed without dustjacket. Measures 9"x11" and has 80 pages. Th author showcases exampless from the collection in both words and photographs. She also offers a history of Chinese rice grain porcelain, explains their patterns and symbols, and displays the 80 items in the exhibit. The book is essentially a hard cover exhibit catalog. Very attractive with many color pictures. View More...
Book is in beautiful condition -- no names or writing, no tears or chiops to jacket, and no bunps to boards. Pages and page edges are pristine. The playwright, Li Yu, was born in 1611 and became a literary star of the Ch'ing dynasty. Book includes biographical material about him, and thereare alsp chapters dedicated to each of the four plays. The pays include The Paired Soles, The Amazing Reunion, The Kite's Mistake and What Can You Do? The author creates a bridge between 17th century Chinese comedy to the modern world. 288 pages. View More...
At the time this guide was in use it was likely during the Age of Aquarius -- 1960's.The book was given to tourists as a souvenir compliments of the Hong Kong Hilton. There's a map at the center and lots of information and places to go and do, especially local stores. Throughout the book there are also small photos in both color and black and white. The guide is very clean and tightly bound and measures 4-1/2" x 7-3/4" with 248 pristine pages on coated paper. There's even American ads --Polaroid, TWA and Samsonite.(Travel Case) View More...
Beautiful oversized book in almost as new condition. There is a small wrinkle to bottom of dustjacket, otherise it's pristine inside and out and will arrive in a brand new mylar cover.The author, Linda Butler, inscribed it to two people as thus: ""For Diane with much gratitutude for your help with the text of my book. And to Tim who nurtures and educates those of us who love photography. With affection, Linda, Sepetember 26, 2004." The book is so lovely with page after page of black and white photographs showing the Yangtze River, and its people before, during, and after the Three Gorges Dam. ... View More...
Very nice book, nicely kept. Pristine pages and page edges. Type is very readable against the very ehite paper. The graphic on the cover was initially sprayed on rice paper. Text is in English, translated by Katherine Vova. Author's preface is in both Chinese and English. chaopters are thus: Liberating the Mind and the Four Wisdoms; Truth Body, Transformation Body, and Bliss Body of Buddha; The Essence, Phenomenon and Function of Prajna; The Three Insight Practices of the Non-phenomenal. Provisional Existence and the Medial Principle; and The Ocean of Wisdom Penetrates the Truth of All Things.... View More...
Very nice clean soft cover measuring 5-1/2"x 8-1/2". Clean as a whistle inside and out with no names or writing and no spine crease. Only fault is flat crease to lower back corner. Illustrated throughout with copies of Ming period woodcuts. Opens with essay entitled "Wicked Women in Cghoinese Literature followed by the stories and selected bibliography. 103 pages. View More...
Crisp beautiful auction catalog. Pristine yellow cover and like pages. Printed on coated paper and illustrated with black and white photographs. Auction was held Thursday, February 25, 1960 and 249 lots were auctioned. Catalog measures 6-1.4"x9-1/2" and has 47 pages. View More...
This is as much a book as it is an auction catalog -- absolutely beautiful and large at 8-1/4" x 10-1/2" with 355 pages in both English and Chinese.It also includes the charming advertising piece which shows the lay-out of the venue -- see the main photo. Due to China's Law on the Protection of Cultural Relics any item marked with a star was prohibited for exportation. The art is gorgeous throughout and predominately in full color. View More...
Very handsome auction catalog held in Hong Kong by Christie's. The art is exquisite and interesing -- elements form classic Asian painting melds with a new, contremporary boldness. Beautiful! The catalog is pristine with no names or writing and no spine crease. It measures 8-1/2" x10-1/2" and has 252 pages View More...
An amazing amount of information in a book which measures 4-1/2"x6-1/2", but is also 2-1/2" thick with 1504 pages. Wonderful crisp, clean fold-out maps and charts throughout, plus an atlas at the back of the book in full color. Book sports red board swith no bumps to corners and a handsome orange top exterior edge as per design, a red bound-in ribbon marker, and map endpapers. Only faults are small tear to both outer bottom corners of dustjacke, former owener's name half-hidden under front endflap. and isolated edge wear bottom front edge. Jacket will arrive in brand new mylar cov... View More...
This is the catalog for the Chinese art exhibition which originally cost $85. The envelope inside contains a notice about the upcoming event. I buy every Weisbrod I can find -- gorgeous in dust jackets and full page color photos of the art.They're also oversized at 8-3/4" x 12". This one has 107 pages highlighting 42 works of art in bronze, pottery, limestone, jade and porcelain. Catalog is clean and tightly bound with no names or writing.The only fault is a small area at top of back dust jacket where there appears to be a lamination issue, but I have placed it in a brand new mylar cover and o... View More...
